My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate.
- Thornton Wilder Quote

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy.
- Thornton Wilder Quote

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
- Thornton Wilder Quote

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
- Thornton Wilder Quote

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
- Thornton Wilder Quote

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
- Thornton Wilder Quote

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
- Thornton Wilder Quote

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
- Thornton Wilder Quote

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
- Thornton Wilder Quote

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
- Thornton Wilder Quote

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
- Thornton Wilder Quote

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
- Thornton Wilder Quote